Come now. Mr. Obama's policies appear to be working. Why change things back to the bad old Bush days when jobs were disappearing at an alarming rate. Not everybody has the financial resources you do. Let's not screw things up. Let's get behind our president. Look at the approval ratings of a Congress whose sole policy seems to be to stop Mr. Obama. Imagine the number of more jobs our president could have created if Congress did what voters sent them to Washington to do.

12:00 pm February 3, 2012

Eric wrote :

Hahahaha. Mitt Romney's a jerk.

12:03 pm February 3, 2012

William wrote :

Come now Larry, you must quit drinking the cool aid ! You actually believe phantom policies ! The campaigner in chief has nothing for this country except fool people like you into believing everything he says. This country is broke because of him. Do your homework.

12:07 pm February 3, 2012

Ray wrote :

Hmm. I actually watched the President's speech, and in no way could it be characterized as "boasting". On the contrary, he made a point of saying that tne numbers would go up and down over the next months and that we had a great deal more work to do.

12:08 pm February 3, 2012

John wrote :

This is Obama's Mission Accomplished moment.

12:11 pm February 3, 2012

Anklejive wrote :

Agree with Ray. There was no "boasting," and no "spiking of the football," as I've heard many Republicans say on TV already this morning. Russolillo, you should be blogging for FoxNation.com. Your crazies are over there.

12:11 pm February 3, 2012

Jim E wrote :

Hey Larry, where can I get some of the stuff that you are smoking? How can you objectively think that this man is doing a good job? I can't wait for the list of "pardons" he has in store for us on his way out!

12:17 pm February 3, 2012

Haitiana4Obama wrote :

Congrats to America for taking such a huge step towards a lasting recovery. I think it's time we also shift focus to the very poor who are probably part of the 1 million not counted, they matter and steps need be taken to train these people and give them jobs. I think President Obama is on the right path, and I see that Republican­s are only slowing him down, with a majority in 2013 imagine what Dems could do? Vote.

12:18 pm February 3, 2012

Lerry wrote :

It's a warning for congress to take a blame if things go wrong.

12:22 pm February 3, 2012

Michelle Obama wrote :

The private sector is working their butts off and starting this recovery. Obama's policies have been postponing the recovery so that Obama can time it to his re-election. We would have been in full recovery and growth mode if Obama "did not muck it up" already.

12:23 pm February 3, 2012

Tony wrote :

All it took was putting an end to his agenda with the 2010 elections. Let's finish the job in November.

12:26 pm February 3, 2012

william wrote :

Let's be honest the economy is getting better and let's give Obalma credit for that. Let's also be honest that he has spent Trillions to get it moving. What remains to be seen is can he pay for it without hurting the working class. He has already hurt me.

12:31 pm February 3, 2012

Jimmy wrote :

This President did accomnplish one good thing.
He created the TEA party.
Without his left wing agenda this would never have happened.
With that he has divided this country more the George W ever could.
I didn't think that was possible, but President Obama did it!
So much for his campaign promise to bring us togetjher.

12:33 pm February 3, 2012

Charles wrote :

It's great to see this economy starting to work on all cylinders . . . unless you are a Neocon, of course. In that case, you watch as your fortunes fade into the sunset, which is precisely where they belong. What I read from Neocons here is simply "sour grapes."

12:47 pm February 3, 2012

dave wrote :

How many trillions of dollars and programs and guarnatees and bialouts and zero interest rates and deficits and stimulus have we spent? LOL, I mean.....how can we call this a "recovery"? Is it not completly obvious that all of this money is flowing to the stock market, commmodities, and above all esle...Wall Street and Corporate America?

Obama appears to be a much morre aggressive proposnent of "trickle down" theory than Rondald Raegan.

Jeeze, I mean you throw multi trillions of dollars at a problem and I would hope that it would at least juicce the stock amkret and corporate profits. Well, thats exactly what it did.

12:52 pm February 3, 2012

Larry II wrote :

Even a rooster takes credit for the sunrise.

12:55 pm February 3, 2012

Charles in Houston wrote :

You guys are naive if you think our any president can manipulate the economy at a whim to sway elections. Obama's primary job is to display confidence in our economy and country in order to build real confidence in the market place. He has done a great job bringing us back from the brink. He is doing a tremendous job under the circumstances.

12:57 pm February 3, 2012

PulSe wrote :

GOP and supporters - Stop betting against America.

12:58 pm February 3, 2012

clarify wrote :

With a 15.3 trillion dollar debt and rising, there is very little cause for optimism.

Hey, Republicans. You can't have it both ways. If you are going to blame him for the unemployment increase that occurred for the first 10 months of his Presidency (due to factors totally out of his control or that he was not responsible for, such as the two wars and the collapse of the financial system), then you have to give him credit for the improvements to employment that are now occurring during his administration. You can't say the improvement is not due to him but the problems are all due to him ("Heads I win; tails you lose"). Sorry, but you better get ready for four more years. That's just the luck of the draw!

1:14 pm February 3, 2012

George Soros wrote :

Stop badmouthing my man Obama.

With all the money I've given him, I'm looking for four more years of steady profits and bailouts for my friends.

2:00 pm February 3, 2012

anoy wrote :

well, did he also boast about the % of part-time and full-time job gains? part time was 90%...good luck "boasting" when someone will call you out on tv soon

6:49 pm February 3, 2012

Reneé T. Armstead wrote :

"Don't muck it up." Bwahahahahaha!!!! You KNOW what he really wanted to say! LOL!!! I wish these people would stop calling him a closet Muslim and a closet racist. I think these people are projecting their stuff onto the President.

He's not doing bad considering he was handed 2 wars, one started solely based on "bad information". The conservative faction in congress will continue to block anything and everything that comes their way just so they can try to make the claim in Nov that Obama accomplished nothing. They care nothing for the plight of the unemployed or the working class. They care nothing for job creation. They care nothing about solving the problems we face. They only care about taking the White House. The best way forward is to rid the House of the teabaggers.

9:41 pm February 3, 2012

Reneé T. Armstead wrote :

"Don't muck it up." Bwahahahahaha!!!! You KNOW what he really wanted to say! LOL!!! I wish these people would stop calling him a closet Muslim and a closet racist. I think these people are projecting their stuff onto the President.

He's not doing bad considering he was handed 2 wars, one started solely based on "bad information". The conservative faction in congress will continue to block anything and everything that comes their way just so they can try to make the claim in Nov that Obama accomplished nothing. They care nothing for the plight of the unemployed or the working class. They care nothing for job creation. They care nothing about solving the problems we face. They only care about taking the White House. The best way forward is to rid the House of the teabaggers.

How could you let this happen? We were counting on you to wreck the economy while pretending to help it. But it's recovering anyway. Now we'll be stuck with the big O for another 4 years.

Start blocking more necessary government programs. Try again to get us to default on our bonds. Do everything possible to destroy the US credit rating. Pull out all the stops.

Sincerely,

The Upper 0.1%

10:02 am February 7, 2012

Bay Stater wrote :

Let me get this straight. Jobs disappear as late as last month - it's Bush's and Congress's fault. One month of good data and Obama claims credit. Yet he hedges his bets by saying, in advance, if it goes back down - it's not his fault, it's Congress. Seriously, who voted for this guy?

5:05 pm February 7, 2012

Madoj wrote :

Dont muck with it ? Oh right - that is his job!

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